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John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, has racked up expenses of nearly £100,000 in three years on trips across Britain and abroad, it has emerged.

Mr Bercow, whose predecessor in the Speaker’s chair was toppled after the Commons expenses scandal, even took an official car on a £84.31 return trip to an office just a mile from the parliamentary estate. He took the car to the headquarters of the expenses watchdog, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

A travel and accommodation bill of more than £96,000 was run up on trips to more than a dozen countries since May 2010. It also